Happy Birthday Diana Rigg!

Happy Birthday Diana Rigg!  Diana worked in television and landed the iconic part of Emma Peel in The Avengers (1965-168), not the superhero group, but the British show that was also transmitted in America about secret agents.  Rigg’s character had an incredible fashion sense; her leather catsuit is well known.  She could fight, drive, and do all of the spy tasks as her fellow agent, John Steed. Next, Diana appeared in the Peter Hall adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1969) as Helena.  She returned to the world of espionage as Sonia Winter in The Assassination Bureau.  Then, she took another iconic part as Countessa Terese di Vincenzo in the James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). She accomplishes something no other other woman has ever done, get James Bond to marry her.  Still, Tracy Bond is assassinated by Bond’s foe, Blofield.  

Next, Diana played Charlotte Mittelheim in the Harold Prince directed movie musical, A Little Night Music (1977). Diana played Clytemnestra in the Greek tragedy Oresteia (1979) which was on television.  She was in The Great Muppet Caper (1981) as Lady Holiday.  Diana was in Evil Under the Sun (1982), adapted from the Agatha Christie mystery.  She played Regan in the tv movie, King Lear (1983), and then played the Evil Queen in Snow White (1987).  A little later she was Mrs. Gillyflower in a 2013 episode of Doctor Who.  Another genre role was as the clever Olenna Tyrell, head of the Tyrell house, in Game of Thrones (2013-2017).  Diana witnessed a comet ready to destroy the world in the mini-series, You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015).  Recently, Diana played the Duchess of Buccleuch in the tv series Victoria (2017). Happy Birthday Diana Rigg! 

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